[Bug 1313600] Re: gparted crashes when trying to resize fat32 partition on live USB

[Roberto Costa]

It took me a  day to get a Live UEFI ubuntu to work from a USB stick on
my Lenovo U430 and another day to find a working solution to make a
partition on the USB and make it persistent too.

Gparted got me crazy!   How can I have to return to Windows just to
partition a USB stick!!!

So I found a tip on a blog saying this:  "it works with Ubuntu 12.04" so
I downloaded a Virtualbox image, fixed UI configuration,  updated and
install gparted, and bingo, it worked!

Reading on the Gparted page, you can see release notes that version
0.23.0 key changes include: "Prevent UI hang when resizing FAT16/32, HFS
and HFS+ file systems"...so please update repository Ubuntu team and
avoid all these bug reports.

Package: gparted
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 1912
Maintainer: Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.18.0-1
Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1 (>= 2.22.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.36.2), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0), libpangomm-1.4-1 (>= 2.27.1), libparted0debian1 (>= 2.2-1), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
Suggests: xfsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, jfsutils, ntfs-3g, dosfstools, yelp, kpartx, dmraid, dmsetup, gpart
Description: GNOME partition editor
 GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition
 tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for
 filesystems not included in libparted.
Homepage: http://gparted.sourceforge.net

My Ubuntu 3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 10:50:42 UTC 2016
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to gparted in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313600

Title:
  gparted crashes when trying to resize fat32 partition on live USB

Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I used 32GB Transcend DataTraveler USB flash. Deleted persistence file and tried to resize partition in Gparted. It crashed when applying changes. The console output was: 
  *** Error in `/usr/sbin/gpartedbin': malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x0000000000b13160 ***
  Aborted (core dumped)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gparted 0.18.0-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr 28 15:41:30 2014
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1313600/+subscriptions